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ID184580
Title ProperBeijing Dama Have Something to Say
Other Title InformationGroup Identification and Online Collective Action among Retirees in Contemporary China
LanguageENG
AuthorRochot, Justine
Summary / Abstract (Note)In 2016, a WeChat account called “Beijing Dama Have Something to Say” was created by a small Beijing-based company. Now widely known among retirees throughout China, this platform provides its public – mostly composed of recently retired women born between the late 1940s and the mid-1960s – with hundreds of videos where volunteer retired women speak up in the name of elderly people’s interests and spread awareness of their shared difficulties and injustices as a generation. Using ethnographic materials and video content analysis, this paper takes the “Beijing Dama” as a case study to address the development of new forms of “group consciousness” among Chinese retirees, leading them to defend their collective interests online despite China’s constraining political environment.
`In' analytical NoteChina Perspectives , No.1; 2022: p.33-45
Journal SourceChina Perspectives 2022-03
Key WordsChina ;  Gender ;  Generation ;  Ageing Group Consciousness ;  Online Collective Action ;  Intergenerational Relationships ;  Third Age ;  Elderly Rights